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Infinity is not just “a really big number” — it is a concept that stretches beyond

our usual understanding of size. In mathematics, infinity appears when we consider


unending processes: counting numbers that go on forever, lines that extend without
limit, or decimals like 0.333… that never truly end. But the strange beauty of
infinity is that it comes in different sizes. The German mathematician Georg Cantor
showed that while the set of all whole numbers is infinite, the set of all real
numbers is even more infinite — a bigger infinity. This idea seems impossible at
first, but it reveals that infinity is not a single idea, but a vast hierarchy of
endlessness. Infinity also appears in calculus when studying limits, in geometry
when imagining points “at infinity,” and in physics when we try to describe
singularities like those in black holes. Perhaps most astonishingly, while we can
never “reach” infinity, we can work with it, reason about it, and use it to make
precise predictions about the finite world.

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